When the surge of COVID-19 cases began to hit long-term care homes in the spring of 2020, nursing home workers were calling Ontario's Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development to blow the whistle on unsafe working conditions, according to...

Now more than a year into the pandemic, CBC Ottawa looks at how people adapt to new realities with its series The Slow Return. For Monika Benson, just thinking about socializing again as society reopens is "nerve-racking."  "During the pandemic, I kind of...

A Kingston, Ont., sports pub can no longer serve alcohol as Ontario's alcohol licensing agency, the AGCO, has removed its licence for breaking pandemic rules. The decision comes about a week after J.A.K.K. Tuesdays shared on Facebook it wouldn't enforce the province's proof-of-vaccine...

Federal data shows tens of thousands of people in Canada's largest provinces received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine after public announcements of a vaccine passport, even before the new policy came into effect.Vaccine passports require residents to show...

When Nathan Maharaj volunteered to be part of a human vaccine trial, he didn't think he'd be shut out of Ontario restaurants, gyms and even weddings a few months later.Maharaj has been fully vaccinated with the Quebec-based Medicago trial vaccine since April. But he's...

Meghan Stewart has dealt with mental health challenges since childhood. There have even been moments where she considered suicide."I have had those moments where it's … 'Well, I wonder if anybody would even notice if I was not on this Earth anymore,'" Stewart...

Rural Ontarians engage in more dangerous drinking than urbanites and that gap grew during the pandemic, a new study finds.According to the study led by researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, fewer people in Ontario cities ended up in the...

Peter Simpson was settling down on the couch with a glass of wine one evening last September when he suddenly realized something was missing."I noticed I had no sense of smell whatsoever," recalled Simpson, 59. He grabbed a can of...

Peter Simard squints into the bright spring sunshine as his wife, Céline Lafrenière, pushes his wheelchair through the front door and down the ramp that's just been built in front of their Gatineau, Que., bungalow."It feels good to be outside in...